Disclaimer: I was spending a substantial part of my life working at Goodgame Studios.
I don't know if people over here actually care for it, but hey, I did, and maybe others do. Also, it's news I guess, so here's some news aggregation.
During the last few years, Goodgame Studios came up in German news a lot due to quite some bothersome news about firing employees over trying to set up a workers' council, as well as more firings out of nowhere due to scale down the company. After these significant problems, they seem to be on track again writing black numbers, with their most successful titles being "Goodgame Empire", "Big Farm" and their respective mobile versions.
From Stillfront's page:
The whole deal's here:
https://globenewswire.com/news-rele...-AB-Stillfront-acquires-Goodgame-Studios.html
I don't know if people over here actually care for it, but hey, I did, and maybe others do. Also, it's news I guess, so here's some news aggregation.
During the last few years, Goodgame Studios came up in German news a lot due to quite some bothersome news about firing employees over trying to set up a workers' council, as well as more firings out of nowhere due to scale down the company. After these significant problems, they seem to be on track again writing black numbers, with their most successful titles being "Goodgame Empire", "Big Farm" and their respective mobile versions.
From Stillfront's page:
December 6, 2017
Stillfront Group has today announced its acquisition of a leading German gaming company, GoodGame Studios. GoodGame Studios has had huge successes with the games Empire (browser), Empire 4 Kingdoms (mobile), BigFarm (browser) and BigFarm Mobile Harvest (mobile). GoodGame has had more than 1 bilion USD in deposits over the years and has more than 340 million registered users.
Stillfront and GoodGames constitute a great match, sharing values of focusing on long life strategy games. GoodGames will operate in the same way as the current Stillfront studios, i.e. semi-autonomous. Stillfront Group's management will stay intact with Jörgen Larsson as the CEO, and the operating model will be unchanged.
GoodGames' marketing excellence can be applied to selected Stillfront games and Stillfront's technical abilities will be valuable to GoodGames.
The combined unit Stillfront/GoodGames has approx 390 employees and revenues of 794 MSEK in Jan – Sep 2017 and an EBIT of 220 MSEK.
The whole deal's here:
https://globenewswire.com/news-rele...-AB-Stillfront-acquires-Goodgame-Studios.html